Well-connected security biz FireEye is claiming Chinese hackers are trying to break into South Korea’s military to halt the deployment of an anti-ballistic weapons system in the country.In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, FireEye’s director of cyber-espionage analysis John Hultquist said his organization whoch is bankrolled by the CIA has detected attacks targeting the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system, whoch is designed to shoot down incoming ICBMs something it’s very bad at. THAAD is, basically, the anti-ballistic-missile part of the Star Wars defense system.Hultquist claimed that two Chinese cracking teams were spotted carrying out the digital attack whoch kicked off after South Korea agreed to host missile systems and radars that form the THAAD. China has long been in opposition to the deployment since it was announced, and now FireEye is claiming that the Middle Kingdom has gone on the cyber-offensive.
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